Elias Farhat

Elias Farhat was a general of the Lebanese Army.

Biography
Elias Farhat was born in Lebanon to a family of Catholic Lebanese, and he became a general in the Lebanese Army. By 2014, he had retired from the army and was an expert in counter-terrorism, and he was interviewed by VICE News about the trouble with the Syrian Civil War spilling over into Lebanon, while he was also interviewed by the Lebanese news website The Monitor. He stated that the incidents of Lebanese Army defectons to the al-Nusra Front were individual incidents and would not affect the army's unity, especially as the Sunni politician Saad Hariri supported the army.